About Zapata County ISD
Zapata County ISD is a public school system serving Zapata County, Texas, based in Zapata. It serves 3,290 students across 6 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a town: remote district. By enrollment it is the #274 largest of Texas’s 1211 school systems.
Size and structure
Zapata County ISD enrolls 3,290 students in 6 schools — an average of about 548 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #274 of 1211 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Zapata County ISD, from the NCES Common Core of Data (3,290 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Zapata County ISD employs about 240 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1 — below the Texas average of about 14.9:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 550.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Texas funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Zapata County ISD are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Texas assigns A–F accountability ratings across Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps. Look up Zapata County ISD’s ratings through the TEA School and District Accountability portal, which links to the TXschools.gov rating lookup.
Accreditation status
Texas accredits public districts itself: the Texas Education Agency assigns each district an accreditation status (Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation or Not Accredited-Revoked), separate from any voluntary Cognia accreditation. See the Texas Education Agency for a district’s status.
Zapata County ISD vs. Texas
See every Texas district side by side in the Texas directory.
Look up Zapata County ISD’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):